Unleashing creative flow through our lives
Here at Openhand I tend to do a good deal of one-on-one coaching. Many people have similar challenges balancing their spiritual impulses with our day-to-day lives. It seems frequently, we know the higher altruistic message, yet society pulls us against what we so often feel in our hearts. The tendency can be to dim our inner light. However, there is one way in particular to keep our light shining brightly. In a word it is 'creativity'...

We are all immensely creative beings. Whether we realise it or not, our inner state of consciousness is creating every single event and circumstance in our outer lives (co-creating with others too of course!). If our inner light is getting dimmed and a little crushed by the density of the outer world, then our experience in the outer is likely to be a little crushed and stagnant too.

That is where creativity comes in or rather I should say attuning to our inherent creativity and letting it flow. Now when I speak of this with people, especially those who don't necessarily feel hugely creative, there seems to be one typical hurdle... people often feel like their creations are simply not good enough for this world. Society wants to quantify, judge and award creations that are 'better' than others.

Of course in absolute truth, no one thing is better or worse than another. Every single part of the mosaic is required to complete the masterpiece. And also, in absolute truth, it is not the creation itself that counts, it is the act of creating.

It is the act of creating that gets our 'juices flowing', that opens higher mind and begins to shape our lives more inline with who we truly are. And it simply doesn't matter how 'good' or 'bad' society and the people around us might judge our creation to be.

Such things as singing, playing a musical instrument, painting and writing not to mention a myriad of other creative possibilities, all of which tend to open ourselves up and stimulate greater creative potential in our lives.

So what is it that you feel moved to do? What do you notice and enjoy in your outer world that perhaps you could have a go at yourself? What really crumbles your creative cookie?

Whatever it is, if we simply give it a go with absolutely no need of an outcome, then we're going to stimulate new gifts of beingness, fresh new energy will be unleashed through our lives and who knows, maybe you'll discover a gift you never dreamed possible.

I remember when Trinity wrote this wonderful poem "The Bridge" during a particularly difficult period in her life. I was not previously aware that she even had poetic inclinations. Recently, having acquired a new publishing program, she felt moved to add imagery and music to the poem - simply for the fun of it. It wasn't until she was finished, we both knew she simply had to share it with others...

Chris